Debt-ridden farmer commits suicide

Hyderabad: Increasing burden of debts forced a 56-year-old farmer to end life in Nalgonda district. Police said Sirassu Eadaiah, a resident of Singarajupally in Gudipally, had consumed poison and committed suicide.

On Thursday, he left for his field located in the village outskirts. Later in the afternoon, farmers from neighbouring fields found him lying in his field, frothing from the mouth. According to villagers, due to crop loss, Eadaiah had incur-red huge debts.